Anyone know if the extra strong snus is due to the selection of higher nicotine containing tobacco plants/parts or is it from straight nicotine addition from a different source? My gut tells me that it would have to be the former, but I wonder at times how they get double the nicotine. I have read a little about the selection process that would improve the nicotine content, but doubling the nicotine amount seems a bit beyond the normal plant/part selection process. Anyone from the snus manufactures care to comment as well?
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I can't be 100% sure but it would have to be synthesized nicotine. To keep a consistent product it would have to be dehydrated and rehydrated with a consistent water / salt / nicotine / flavoring content. Otherwise every lot would taste different and there could not good consistency within the product. -
Most snus is composed largely of stem (this isn't so bad, as the stem has a unique/mellowing taste effect). The sterks are mostly leaf. I think Skruf is 100% whole leaf.
Extracting nicotine (nicotine is nicorette gum is extracted from the stem) is rather expensive (and wasteful) - I doubt they add extra nicotine. Extracted stem- nicotine is pronated (non-freebased), so it wouldn't do much anyway. I could be wrong.Comment
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Yes, I tried translating the Skruf Stark ingredients and it comes out to something like "extra strong whole leaf tobacco" I wouldn't fancy my chances of going back to Nicorette 4mg gum if I couldn't get Snus anymore, guess I would start smoking again
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Are the prices for that crap (Nicorette) as obscene in the UK as they are in the US?Originally posted by mwood72I wouldn't fancy my chances of going back to Nicorette 4mg gum if I couldn't get Snus anymore, guess I would start smoking againComment
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Yep. Last time I tried to quit smoking with Nicorette it was priced at roughly the same level as cigarettes - $10 for a box of 30 vs. $8 for a pack of 20sOriginally posted by AsquarComment
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It sure is. I cut open a a portion of Skruf Stark and it looks worlds different than Skruf Stark Los. Actually, Skruf Stark portion tobacco doesn't even look like snus! I haven't tried cutting open a portion of General Ekstra Sterk yet... I just can't go through with wasting a portion!Originally posted by ---Nicotinic Acid---Comment
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A bit gross, but you could cut it when you're finished with it...Originally posted by snusjusComment
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Here's some chemical facts about nicotine.
This article is from Bodybuilding.com, and is a very neutral source that not only talk about the negative... -
Nicotine: helping those who help themselves?
By John A. Rosecrans
Copyright 1998 Chemcistry and Industry Magazine
July 6, 1998
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From the Financial Times:
Last gaspers
By Richard Tomkins
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This book excerpt ran in Scientific American last year, and there's a lot here that's surprising.
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If anyone every wondered about the process used to make "Northerner" Snus I have included it below. There are different steps because they use...
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